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Are Installation and Checkout (I&C) forms needed for commercial, off-the-shelf software, particularly for additions or “patches” to the software?

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Are Installation and Checkout (I&C) forms needed for commercial, off-the-shelf software, particularly for additions or “patches” to the software?

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Reference to NP 19-1 provides the following answers: If the commercial software is any of the numerous kinds of “systems software” named in the “Purpose and Scope” section of NP 19-1 as being excluded from applicability of the procedure, the no I&C forms are needed for it, or for fixes to it. Such software includes operating systems, and word processors, plus spreadsheet, database, and graphing programs. Other commercial software would fall in the classification of “acquired” software within NP 19-1. Table 1, Compliance Decision (CD) Software Requirements, on page 6 of the procedure, shows that I&C forms are required for acquired software that is subject to NP 19-1.